He has represented a number of mining companies on wide range of issues that includes energy, taxation, environment and disputes arising from development agreements with governments and is also a practising Arbitrator and member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a member of the Law Society of Zambia.

[2] After finishing his diploma in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising graduation from Sir Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce, Lusaka, Dickson Jere joined Zambia's The Post, as a reporter in the mid-1990s.

Moreover, he has featured regularly on a number of radio and television stations in Southern Africa as an analyst discussing political and economic developments in the region.

[4][5] In 2003, President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa appointed Jere as a Commissioner on the Commission tasked to draft the country's constitution.

In March 2018, Dickson Jere was elected as the Honorary Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration (Zambia) at the annual general meeting.

He later studied for his Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Zambia shortly before he was appointed as a press aide at State House.